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An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women adventurers in history From deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, they faced unimaginable dangers as they crossed all five continents, often armed with little more than a corset and an umbrella. Spanning a decade, this book mixes triumph and tragedy. The featured women include Fanny Vandegrift, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, who ventured all the way from Indiana to Samoa, and Nellie Bly, journalist and social reformer, who went around the world in seventy-two days. The thirty-one women celebrated here hail from fourteen countries and traveled to the farthest reaches of our planet. Twice as brave as their male counterparts, in the face of social convention, these women set off into the unknown. Their bold journeys across the globe had long-lasting effects on the role and status of women in society, and they made important contributions to disciplines as varied as medicine, archeology, and anthropology..
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Daniel Boone's story is every young adventurer's fantasy: A childhood in Pennsylvania spent hunting on lands shared with Native Americans; a coming-of-age fighting in the French and Indian War; and the fulfillment of a life's dream with the blazing of the Wilderness Road across the Appalachian Mountains and the settling of Boonesborough in Kentucky. Add to this the rescue of his daughter from Shawnee warriors, and readers are quickly in the thick of another irresistible Cheryl Harness History.

Once again, Cheryl Harness combines lively storytelling with vividly detailed illustrations to transport readers back to an exciting era in American history. During Daniel Boone's 86-year life, Colonial America is transformed into a revolutionary republic, trails morph into roads and highways, and Americans discover new ways to travel—by canal, and by steam-powered boats and trains. Readers journey through these formative milestones in America's great westward expansion with the aid of a time line running along each page, 200-plus illustrations, maps, sidebars, primary-source quotations, and resource lists. The amazing, true story of Daniel Boone will give readers insight into an era of explosive change and unforgettable adventure..
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Paper Back. Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Aubery, and Matthew E. Adams.
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If you're hankerin' for some good old-fashioned cowboy eatin', here's the answer to your cravings. The Cowboy's Cookbook is not for the lily-livered, "I'll just have a salad, with the tiniest bit of dressing on the side, please" kind of person. It's chock full of recipes such as Shepherd's Pie (two pounds of ground beef for 4 to 6 servings), Cookhouse Meatloaf (12 ounces lean ground beef and 12 ounces lean ground veal for 4 to 6 servings), and the ever-so-charming Son-of-a-Bitch Stew (traditionally made with freshly slaughtered cow's innards, although this modern version has been revised to use simply boneless beef chuck and ox or lamb kidneys). Many of the recipes are perfectly suited for today's campers. Imagine sitting around the breakfast campfire with your family and friends sharing a big batch of Eggs 'n' Hash, Blueberry Saddle Blankets (translate that into blueberry pancakes), or Irish "Camp Potatoes." In addition to main courses and breakfast dishes, there are plenty of recipes for desserts (Wild Berry Cobbler, Plum Crisp, and Oatmeal Pie to name a few) and breads (Sourdough Pinch-Offs, Chunky Skillet Cornbread, and Bacon 'n' Cheese Beer Loaf). Full-color photographs are peppered throughout this nostalgic cookbook, along with pictures of cowboy paraphernalia and black and white photos from long ago trails. So, whadda ya say, Cookie, time to head 'em up and move 'em out? --Colleen Preston.
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In 1968, 1 percent of the New York City Police Department was female. When Kathy Burke joined the NYPD's ranks in June of that year she was one of only ten women in a class of 950 recruits. But the determined Burke had no doubt that she was born to be a cop, and in her twenty-three-year career she rose to be the most highly decorated female detective in the NYPD's history. Detective is her story.

By turns caustic, funny, and matter-of-fact, Burke describes what it was like for a young woman to be surrounded by often hostile male officers and the uphill battle she fought to prove herself and earn their respect. But earn it she did. From her beginnings as an undercover cop making drug buys on New York's most dangerous streets to posing as Mrs. Patz to capture extortionists in the Etan Patz case to investigating the Mafia, Burke worked in some of the NYPD's most elite units on its most high-profile cases, eventually rising to the rank of detective first grade, the very highest in the detective bureau.

Burke vividly portrays every aspect of a cop's experience, taking readers from the discos where she flirted with drug dealers to the halls of Congress, where she testified about drugs and corruption with a paper bag over her head (to protect her undercover persona), to a deserted street in Queens where a tragic shooting would forever change her career and her life. Burke is brutally honest in her criticism of NYPD leadership and corruption within the department, in her accounts of the physical and emotional toll taken by the job that she loved, and in her descriptions of the sacrifices -- sometimes even the greatest sacrifice of all -- that cops must make.

Detective is a revelatory and inspirational story of life lived without apology, of stubborn courage, and of a woman who triumphed over doubts, recrimination, and personal tragedy to truly become "one of New York's Finest.".
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Recently, several major events have catapulted the issue of Chinese businesses in America to the front pages of every major national and international newspaper and on network news broadcasts around the world: China's $18.5 billion bid for US company Unocal and China's Haier bid for US-based Maytag . Chinese entrepreneurs are reshaping China’s economy, and now it looks like they could reshape ours.

In Made in China, Donald N. Sull profiles eight of these formidable ventures to reveal the secrets behind their surprising success. Based on extensive research, including in-depth interviews and access to corporate archives, Made in China explores these entrepreneurs’ winning strategies, from how they anticipate and maneuver through emerging threats and opportunities ("active waiting"), to how they manage risks, to how they consistently out-execute rivals. Taken together, these principles represent a comprehensive model for managing in unpredictable environments worldwide.

An insider’s look at the playbook of some of the world’s savviest and most resilient entrepreneurs, Made in China is essential reading for anyone doing business in China or in any volatile industry or market..
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Diabetes can be a devastating disease, causing multiple degenerative conditions over the course of a person’s life. Juvenile diabetes can be especially difficult because it strikes children. To live for 80 years with diabetes is a triumph that could only result from dedicated self-discipline, determination, and tenacity. These very qualities allowed James W. Quander, the author of this educational and inspirational autobiography, to live a full life into his 80s in spite of a prognosis to die before age 10.

Diagnosed in 1924 with diabetes shortly before turning 6 in a time when insulin injections were new, there was a stigma to have this disease. He kept his "Big Secret" until in his senior years in spite of hospitalizations, health emergencies, and near-death experiences. Then in an effort to educate others about living with diabetes, he often participated in personal and media interviews, and was featured in the Washington Post, Diabetes Forecast, Successful Living with Diabetes, and the Diabetic News.

James W. Quander, a trailblazer in education and career, worked for the U.S. federal government for 33 years as an economist, statistician, computer programmer, and manpower labor specialist. In 1971, he was ordained as one of the first of 16 Permanent Deacons in the Roman Catholic Church; and in September 1975, he served as sole assistant to Pope Paul VI in celebrating a daily mass. He was also active in tracing the history of the Quander family, one of the oldest African-American families in the U.S., dating to 1684..
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Chapter One

The Beginning

Although some names have been changed, the following events are real.

In January 1993 the Huntington Beach High School boys' track team, which I coached, organized a community track meet as a fund-raiser. We ended up having more workers than competitors, and rain was nearly the sole occupant of the bleachers lining our ancient brick-dust track. Of the few athletes who showed to compete, one runner caught my eye. His rail-thin body reminded me of a Kenyan runner's; he looked like a champion. He appeared old enough to be in high school, but I didn't recognize him and figured him to be a junior-high runner. Always on the lookout for future athletes, I wanted to find out more. But rules governing our sport prohibited me from speaking to potential athletes until they had graduated from the eighth grade. To circumvent this, I asked one of my runners, Erich Phinizy, to investigate. "Find out his age and where he goes to school," I said. "And tell him about our program."

Erich returned with valuable information. The runner was in junior high and would be attending Huntington Beach next year. He also informed me that our future runner was of English descent. Erich pointed to the only two people sitting in the bleachers and said, "Those are his parents."

Damn, not England, I thought. They're a bunch of soccer freaks. I hoped he wouldn't be like a former English runner of mine, who once remarked, "What's the purpose of running if there's no ball to kick along the way?"

Although the soccer coach and I were close friends, we often competed for the same athletes, as soccer players are often runners and vice versa. Each of us ran a quality program, coaching our athletes year-round.

"So, Erich, what's his name?"

"Oh, I didn't get that, Coach. Sorry."

"Don't worry about it."

The possibility of this kid's running for our team excited me, especially since he had come to race the three-mile, an unusually long distance for a 13-year-old. I scanned the entry list and saw, unfortunately, that there were only two other runners in his race. One was a 60-year-old jogger, and the other was Erich. Eager to assess the kid's talent, I asked Erich to pace him. "Run alo.
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